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Dangerous Moves won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984; [3] it was submitted by the Swiss government, and gave that nation its first Oscar win. It also won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix de l'Académie du Cinéma and the César Award for Best Debut.
May 24, 1985 · Dangerous Moves: Directed by Richard Dembo. With Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron. During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
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Faye Dunaway and Placido Domingo present the Oscar® for Foreign Language Film to Switzerland for "Dangerous Moves" at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985.
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Films with the most nominations: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations.
Dangerous Moves won an Oscar for best foreign film and has an impressive cast, but it was strangely kind of a bore to watch; even enough to feel like it was a bit of a challenge to finish. There’s two people who are rivals and they play chess and there are good actors and they are kind of wasted.
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- Richard Dembo
Aging Soviet chess champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) arrives in Geneva to face off against his former student Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt) in a World Championship match. Pavius is a...
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Though it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1984, Dangerous Moves could have used a less explicitly allegorical script. If you're not a chess player, the match sequences might also generate bemused shrugs rather than gasps.
